heritor

When a private bill goes through parliament, ordinary citizens can object to its terms - and a succession of pow "heritors" did so.

Hemingway and Dos Passos in the first world war; Mailer, Heller, Jones and Vonnegut in the second world war; O’Brien, Herr and Marlantes in Vietnam: they’re all heritors of Bierce.

There were some of birth and breeding, and there were daughters of the slums, heritors of their mothers' foulness.

Here his wife was to administer love and consolation; here children were to be born, hostages to fortune, heritors of name and fame, idols upon whom can be lavished the inexhaustible treasures of love.

A female pauper lately made a very strong and forcible appeal to the elders and heritors of a certain parish, for an advance of 4s. 6d.